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How Will Redemption Take Place?

How Will Redemption Take Place?

Immediately after the great tribulation the sun will be darkened. But this will not bring about the desired redemption.

Before the Lord returns the moon will not give its light. But this will not bring about the desired redemption.

The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. But none of this will bring about the promised redemption.

How, then, will the wonderful works of redemption take place?

By the following!

The restoration of the Presence of God to the earth.

Deliverance from the presence of sin.

The change from bodily corruption to bodily incorruption.

The exaltation of Jerusalem and all Israel.

The bringing of justice and the rule of God to the meek of the earth.

The restoration of Paradise to the earth.

The six aspects of redemption we have mentioned will not pour from the skies, they will be given at the hands of people, at the hands of the Servant of the Lord. The Servant of the Lord is Christ—Head and Body.

Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. (Isaiah 44:2)

The purpose for the two thousand years of the Church Age has been to prepare the Body of Christ, the Body of Israel, of the Servant of the Lord, for its work of restoring to mankind that which was forfeited through the trickery of the adversary, Satan. The Body must be made perfect before it can successfully bring the Presence of God and eternal life to the saved peoples of the earth.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (Ephesians 4:13)

Notice how mankind flocks to God's Israel, God's Servant, when the Servant is one with God and filled with God's Glory.

And the Gentiles [nations] shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isaiah 60:3)

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)

"That the world may believe"!

When the Day of the Lord is mentioned there sometimes is a reference to an army of saints who will appear along with Christ. These are the sons of God. The sons of God who are to be revealed at the coming of the Lord are, as we understand it, a firstfruits of the entire Church, a Gideon's army, a holy, warlike remnant of saints who will be used by the Lord to destroy all the works of Satan from the earth.

Those who ride with the Lord in that Day will not be new believers who barely are saved but mature saints who have been tested again and again in the fires of tribulation and temptation.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. (Revelation 17:14)

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Revelation 20:6)

It is those whose life the Lord is that will appear with Him.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)

Numerous believers of our day are living as children of Adam—in the wisdom and energy of the natural man. They have never been crucified to the point that their life has become the Life of the risen Christ. To teach such fleshly church-attenders that they will be revealed with the Lord at His appearing, or that they will be caught up to meet the Fire of Israel at His coming (woe unto them if they were forced into the Presence of the Lord Jesus in their present condition!), is a cruel hoax.

The holy remnant who will appear with the Lord are already being judged by the Word of God. They are being trained to follow the Lamb closely because the war of God against His enemy, the enemy who at this time is occupying our inheritance, must always be guided and empowered by the Lord. Man is unable to fight successfully against the fallen lords of Heaven.

Throughout the Christian Era a large and powerful army has been and yet is being formed.

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. (Joel 2:2)

This great and mighty people will be filled with both the goodness and severity of God. The vision of their coming frightened the prophet.

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. (Habakkuk 3:16)

A people have been trained throughout the Church Age who will invade the earth. They will return with the Lord Jesus to deliver Israel and the saved nations of the earth. But woe to the hypocrites in the churches and to the wicked in that day!

. . . and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Zechariah 14:5)

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Joel 2:3)

And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 4:3)

The sinners in the churches shall face the fire of God's judgment.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (Isaiah 33:14)

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these [the sinners at the love feasts of the saints] , saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 1:14,15)

The wicked of the earth will face the wrath of God in His saints in that Day.

They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. (Isaiah 13:5)

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

Because unclean spirits are preventing the redeeming of the earth and its peoples, even after the blood of Jesus has paid the price of redemption, these arrogant destroyers of the earth shall be driven out by force; not the force of zealous religious crusaders but the force of God the Father in the Son acting through the Holy Spirit in the saints. The sons of God shall release the creation from bondage at the time of the coming of the Lord from Heaven—but not before His coming.

After every trace of rebellion has been crushed, after every knee has bowed to the Lord Jesus and has confessed that Jesus is Lord to the Glory of God the Father, the saints will begin their work of redeeming the earth.

Eternal life, the Presence of God, deliverance from sin, the removal of futility and corruption, the exaltation of Jerusalem and all Israel, the bringing of justice to the meek of the earth, and the restoring of Paradise to the physical environment, will all be brought to mankind through the saints.

But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. (Isaiah 61:6)

Those who love the Lord today, the true disciples of the Lord, are passing from Pentecost to Tabernacles—from the spiritual experience typified by the Old Testament feast of Pentecost to the experience typified by the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus, Chapter 23).

The feast of Pentecost speaks to us of the former and latter rain, the blessing of the Holy Spirit poured on us from Heaven by the hand of the Lord Jesus. Pentecost is the rain from Heaven.

The feast of Tabernacles also has to do with the water of the Holy Spirit; but in the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles the water flows from the throne of God that has been created in the believer. Tabernacles is the well springing from within the saint.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)

Speaking during the celebration of the feast of Tabernacles, the Lord Jesus proclaimed:

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)

As we, the Lord's trees of life, with joy draw water from the wells of salvation within us, the "fish" in the dead sea of mankind will live.

And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. (Ezekiel 47:9)

In this manner the fullness of redemption will come to every saved person on earth. Redemption will come at first through a warlike remnant, a firstfruits to God and the Lamb, and then will be maintained by the entire Church, the Israel of God, the new Jerusalem, throughout the eternal ages to come.

The role of God's Israel, of everyone who belongs to Christ, is to install and maintain on the earth all that mankind forfeited through the cunning of Satan:

Eternal life and the Presence of God.

Freedom from sin.

Bodily incorruption.

Jerusalem as the center of government of the earth.

Justice for the meek of the earth.

The restoration of Paradise.

When we see the heavens shaken, the powers of nature seemingly out of control, then we are to lift up our head.

Our redemption is drawing near!